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EDENext GIS Training Workshop commences December 2013

Submitted by SpatialDataSite... on Fri, 27/09/2013 - 16:53

Below is a detailed program for the face to face workshop ‘Introduction to Geographical Information Systems’ which will be held from December 3 until December 5 2013 in Antwerp. This workshop is available to EDENext participants. Places are limited and priority will be given to those nominated by their EDENext group leaders. If you would like to be considered for this workshop please contact us at edenextdata@gmail.com

The Workshop will be followed up with a distance learning course. The schedule of which is also included below.

Workshop Program 3 – 5 December 2013

Tuesday 13:30 – 14:00

Registration

Tuesday 14:00 – 14:30

Block 1: Introduction to the course

Learning outcomes:

Participants introduce themselves:

their research and

why they enrolled for this course

what are their expectations of the course

Lecturers are introduced

Course approach is explained

Workshop program is explained

Short introduction to the different GIS-software (ArcGIS, Manifold, Idrisi, Erdas, …) and motivation for using QGIS in this course

Tuesday 14:30 – 17:00

Block 2: Introduction to QGIS

Learning outcomes:

Participants

run QGIS on their personal laptops;

understand the different parts of the QGIS interface;

manage to open some vector files and change their appearance;

can load and enable plugins;

have a general understanding of how the QGIS open source initiative compares with commercial GIS software.

Practical work:

import vector files

change appearance of the vector files

Wednesday 9:00 – 10:30, 11:00 – 12:30

Block 3: Projection Systems

Learning outcomes:

Participants

understand the different coordination reference systems;

understand when to work with projected data;

are able to handle projection problems.

Practical work:

assign a missing geographic coordinate system;

convert a geographic coordinate system to a projected coordinate system;